Art Exhibit: The Miracle Machine
Event Details
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Friday, September 22, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Monday, September 25, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Thursday, September 28, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Friday, September 29, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Monday, October 2, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Friday, October 6, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Monday, October 9, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Friday, October 13, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Monday, October 16, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Friday, October 20, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Monday, October 23, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Friday, October 27, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Monday, October 30, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Thursday, November 2, 2023
Mon. and Tues. 1-7 p.m.; Wed. through Fri. 1-5 p.m.
Augusta Savage Gallery
180 Infirmary Way
Amherst MA 01003
Free
Contact
Anne Laprade Seuthe
Augusta Savage Gallery, Fine Arts Center
Opening teception: September 13, 5-7 p.m. Artists talk: November 2, 6 p.m.
Led by Dr. Imo Nse Imeh, a professor of art and art history at Westfield State University, The Miracle Machine features five visual artists, including Kahli Hernandez, on the heels of his fascinating interactive solo exhibition at A.P.E. Gallery in Northampton, local artist JaJa Swinton, Xavier Merkman, a sophomor art major at Westfield State, and Omarthan Clarke (Westfield State, 2007), who is both a contributing artist and curator of this installation. Additional contributors include Aaron Joseph St. Louis, a celebrated local poet and spoken word artist whose textual installations and video orations contextualize the entire collection in the framework of historical and present-day narrative; and musician Kevin Mason (Westfield State, 2018) who provides a sound installation and original compositions that are braided into the conception of the exhibited artwork. Collectively, the artists consider themes of identity, belonging, brotherhood, and Blackness, while acknowledging the reality of spaces that allow us, or that deny us, and that ultimately change us. In acknowledging these varied histories, through image, text, verse, and sound, this multidimensional installation challenges the myth of ephemerality in Black life, signaling the Black consciousness as indelible, eternal, and miraculous. “The chance of play, the chance of mystery is at the root of this collaboration. It is a part of us, it will grow with us, and there’s power in that.” — Imo Nse Imeh